The Osceola times., 1887-04-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled Zen variels SeurosA
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

Rifles.
Ok the 9th bill was pas sed by the
Pennsylvania Senate providing that the
punishment for murder In tho first degree
may be death by the use OF electricity.
PorE LEO Is about to issue a letter sane
tioning the principle OF the creation OF a
Catholic university at Baltimore. The
Pope persists that DIR. Mc6lynn must 90
TO Rome.
OK the 9th, at the Windsor Hotel, New
York, Sir William Owen Lanyon, X. &.
NJ, u. C. B., died of cancer of the jaw.
Deceased was forty-fou years old, was
born in Ireland, and had served in wars
of England with distinction. In the sec
ond Soudan campaign he contrccted the
disease Of which he died. He had spent
the wiuter In Nassau aps. Florida, and
reached New York Ma,ch 81.
GENERAL CaARLps j. PAINE, Of Boston,
owner OF the Eayfo has decided 10
build a stee. center board yacht, about the
size OF tie Mayflower, to defend the Amer
lca's cup. She will be smooth scanned,
hc.h above and below the water-line.
Mr.. Edward Burgess Is now at work on
her lines.
Ok the 9th the will Of Mary r. Pelton,
sister Of the late Samuel J, Tilden, was
admitted TO probate, The testatrix be-
quoaths all her property to her grand
daughter Laura A. Pclton, wife OF VIM.
A. Hazard.
TUE Democrats elected nearly their en-
Tire State ticket IN Rhode Island and have
good prospects Of securing the Legisla.
turc.
1T is thought that Secretary Fairchild is
favorabh, to Architect McGrath OF st.
fnr All nf AA
Treasury.
A JAPANESE who claims to have partici.
pated in the Chinese rebellion Of 1857,
gives Lansing (;xich.) reporter some.
thing about Billy Kissane's alleged career
In China.
In the Illinois Legislature, on the nm.
during the debate on a conspirney bin.
quite q breeze was cceAsioned by Mr.,
Dixon severely scoring Mr.. Merritt for
having bcen merlber Of the Knights of
the Golden Circle during the war.
CoxNoD"aE CHARLES GREEN, u. g. n,
retired, died suddenly at Providence, r
l., OF the 9TH, aged seventy, three years.
SENIOR CORRAL, the Bolivian Minister 10
this country, presented letters of recall "a
President Cleveland on the vtn, and the
customary civilities were exchanged. 1t
is understood that Senor Corral has been
relieved at his own request.
THk total amount contribu tod during
THO past year for the erection OF a n, on u:
mont to the late Vice. Preslden II ,ndfica 8
Is Sl,oO0. The sum required 70 erect the
monument 10 ts),0o0 and il is thought II
can be raised during the next year.
GESrRAL rnos. W. CONWAY, secretary
OF the STATE Temperance League of New
York, and organizer OF the Temperance
Insurance Association OF New York, died
suddenly ON the night Of the 9th. He was
forty-eight years old
BILLY kissANE, who Is sick abed at
Sonoma, was interviewed by reporter on
the 1th, but declined to say much. He dis
tinctly charged that General Darr's mo.
tive In exposing him was blackmail, and
added: tin fact, Darr demanded OF me a
specified sum as his price for continued
silence"
CHICAGO, not to be outdone by st. Louis,
has sent an Invitation to the President to
visit that city.
BARON NoRDESsKIoLD, the Swedish ex-
plorer, is preparing an expedition for the
Antarctic regions.
MRS. VIRGINIA {. OHR, who has been for
twenty wears matron OF the Illinois Sol
diers' and Sailors Orphans Home at Nor
NAL. has been removed.
CAPTAIN MCKENZIE, the chess player,
arrived at New Orleans from Havana, on
the sth, On route to ST. Louis to play a
mater game with Max Judd
TnE President has written a spiri ted
reply TO the American Fisheries Union of
Massachusetts, who wrote him concern.
Ing the policy Of retaliation with Canada.
THE Marquis Of Lansdownc refuses 10
talk about his Irish land troubles. Otta-
wa dispatches say he acts as though he
was alarmed for his personal safety, but
{ hat he is resolute In the position he has
taken.
PoPE LEO has forwarded to the French
Government proposals aiming TO bring
about Pm understanding with France with
reference TO the establishment Of diplo-
matte relations betweeA the Vatican and
China.
Ok the sth Jennie jeffrey arrison, the
young gypsy queen wh, died in child bed
at jackson, Miss, December ~, 1886, was
buried in the gypsy lot a. Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, o., with all the funer.
al honors accorded In the gypsy burial
service.
ArLaCrossc, WIS, tn, Democrats and
Repuollcans have fuse on their muni-
cipal tcket In order TO defea. the Social
istc element
OK the morning Of tho l0.h john T. Ray
mond, the celebrated comedian, died a
Evansville, Ind, from complication Of
bowel and heart troubles. Mr.. Raymond
was fifty years old on the 4th inst.
TnE express robber Michael Roark, il
custody at Utica, N. ", is sad to answer
the printed description OF Michael X luke
who escaped from the Jefferson City MO
pcnitentiary in 1881, while serving tie.
years sentence for train robbery.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed as
commissioners to investigate the affairs
of the Pacific railroads. under the act
passed by the last Congress: Ex-Governor
Robert T. Pattison, Of Pennsylvania; +
E!lery Anderson of New York, and David
Littlcr, OF Illinois.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is in dilemma
st. Louis wonts him in September, and
Chicago wants him in Move ember He
can not make two trips West, and can not
favor one city without of ffending the
other; ergo, he may not visit either.
Mrs. JAMES BRowS-PorrER is reported
to be play ing TO rather light business In
London, but is drawing s500a week never
theless: and the critics agree that she Is
showing marked improvement in her act
ing.
DIR. MuDp, Of ST Louis, who went TO
Fort Gibson, l. T., to attend Mr.. Blaine
repsrts that the patient is suffering from
broncho pneumonia, and fears are ex-
pressed that his condition Is worse than
has been given out.
THs Printess of Wales is reportet to be
in precsrious condition OF realth
through anxiety over the mental and other
troubles OF her three sisters.
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE CoLNAS